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Sony Vegas to OMF
I see that the last posting on here regarding OMF files is about 3 years old, I’m just wondering if there’s been any progress in that time.
I just finished editing a short film where when it was time to sound a sound mix I had no way of getting the files into my mixer’s Pro Tools so I had to export each audio track as a separate WAV file for him to import which made it a lot more difficult for him. I attempted to export the project as an AAF using the 32-bit Vegas Pro 11 (I don’t really understand why that’s only available in the 32-bit and not the 64-bit so I have to have both programs installed on my system) but his Pro Tools was unable to open the file.
Is there an easier way to export the audio files in my Vegas project into a Pro Tools environment, or has Sony still not addressed this problem?
Thanks.
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4 Replies
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Based on a search of other Vegas forums, here are a few things to try.
#1. Save the project as an *.AAF and see if that works.
#2. Try Trackalizer (it’s a free download from VASST).
What this program does is export every audio track in your program and saves it as a multi-track WAV file.#3. Try AATranslator/ (cost for this one, depending on which version you need).
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I tried saving it as an AAF and his Pro Tools was unable to read the file.
Trackalizer seems to just create a multi-track wav file, which doesn’t show my mixer the different clips that I used, the levels on each clip or give him pre/post-roll on each clip.
I am trying to figure out waht AATranslator does, but it appears to me that it does not export the sound files with handles and meta-data the way that OMFs do. -
Don’t be fooled into thinking that all OMFs are created (or even read) equally (and that includes ones from Digitranslator).
OMFs come in 4 flavours :-
1. embedded
2. reference
3. lucky if they are read by anything
4. any combination of the aboveAATranslator will convert a Vegas script (XML) or Vegas EDL (txt) to either an embedded or reference OMF (can optionally convert audio to aif) which PT can read. The ‘handles’ are provided and from memory the metadata is maintained
Contact me via the aatranslator web site and I will sort something out for you for this project of yours
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Just a thought – you might want to consider using AATranslator to convert from a Vegas XML to a PT session file (PT5). You will get far more information converted than could ever be hoped for using an OMF. Things like markers, bpm, and a whole lot more.
There is a link on the AATranslator web site to a conversion guide that outlines what details get converted for each format.
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